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FEATURED VIDEO – The changes that the pandemic has generated in Chile (03:36)
Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic in Chile, a total of 30,063 have been infected with this disease in the country, according to the last report delivered by the Ministry of Health.
In their daily balance, the health authorities reported that the number of fatalities reached 323, after 11 new deaths were reported in the last 24 hours.
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In the instance, the Undersecretary of Public Health, Paula Daza, announced that the quarantine in force in the communes of Santiago, Quilicura, Recoleta and Cerrillos in the Metropolitan Region and in the urban area of Antofagasta and all of Mussels, for seven more days, counting from 10:00 pm on Tuesday, May 12.
For his part, the Undersecretary of Assistance Networks, Arturo Zúñiga, referred to one of the events that marked the day: the death of a 36-year-old patient by COVID-19, who would have lost his life due to the lack of mechanical ventilators. at the San José Hospital.
In this regard, the authority denied what was reported by the Federation of Public Health Associations (Fedasap), indicating that the site does have equipment available for people who require ventilation, and maintained that the patient had arrived at the place in “extremely serious conditions “
On the day, in addition, the government also announced that the presidential veto was presented to achieve progress with the draft Emergency Family Income Law.
“If obviously the veto were rejected it would be very serious and I think that no one is putting himself in that place in order to have to explain to 4.5 million people that they are not going to deliver this benefit because there were political differences,” said the minister of Segpres, Felipe Ward.
Meanwhile, since the number of coronavirus infections has not declined in the Metropolitan Region, the municipality of Ñuñoa decided suspend the inns traditionally held at the National Stadium. Given this, the metropolitan mayor, Felipe Guevara, indicated that the municipalities should “evaluate or modify the activities by making them smaller or rightly suspend” the celebrations of National Holidays.
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At the international level, United States overcame the barrier of 80,000 fatalities product of the coronavirus, reaching a total figure of 80,378.
Likewise, the director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, warned on Monday that there was a wave of cases of coronavirus during the weekend in some of the nations of the world where the measures of mandatory confinement and other restrictions.
In global terms, 4,177,504 people have been infected with coronavirus. The United States, Spain, United Kingdom, Russia, Italy, France, Germany and Brazil are the countries that have been most affected by this pandemic.
Relive a complete summary of the day here:
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